Kitchen Aid's Brazilian division offers this Wonder Woman-themed stand mixer. My wife likes Wonder Woman. Maybe I should get her one of these -- provided that I can find a matching vacuum cleaner and toilet brush. They will no doubt be well-received.
Scott Campbell reminds us of a scene that was thankfully removed from the final version of Ghostbusters. Also: Patrick Swayze was the actor best suited to play Slimer in the Broadway musical version of that film. Yet it was not to be.
YouTube user Lorduss1 attached a GoPro camera to a stick and chased his dog around the yard. Watch the world spin as you become a plaything to a retriever.
Freaking airplanes! How do they work? This video shows an Airbus A330 taking off from the Farnborough Airshow in 1994. About 24 seconds into the video, the jetliner appears to hover, nearly motionless, in midair.
The 1968 episode of Star Trek entitled "Patterns of Force" is set in a society modeled after Nazi Germany. Because so many uniforms from the Third Reich are featured in it, the episode was not aired in a Germany still sensitive to anything remotely resembling Nazism. But recently the broadcasting company ZDF concluded that it is time to make that episode available for German Trekkies who have never had the opportunity to watch it. Due to controversial subject matter, broadcasting officials will give it a restricted rating and only air it after 10 PM.
There is still no news about when "Spectre of the Gun" will be permitted in Arizona.
As a joke, forgers at the United Kingdom's Special Operations Executive made this fake German passport in 1941. It lists Hitler as a Jewish painter who has permission to visit Palestine, then ruled by the British. You can view another photograph of this passport from the UK's National Archives at the link.
It would be the ultimate LARPing setting, but I don't know if it's been used for that. Harlech House in Dublin, Ireland is a fanciful mansion that includes an underground passage, a secret garden, a ship's prow, and artwork everywhere inspired by fairy tales. It's topped off with this ominous warning to unwelcome visitors.
Amy Shackleton applies wet paint to a canvas and then elevates and turns it so that the paint runs in the direction that she wants. After many carefully staged pourings over one or two weeks, she's made a complete, coherent image. Her technique seems to work particularly well for nighttime scenes. You can view more images and a time-lapse video of Shackleton at work at the link.
The sampler was created by man. There are no copies. It does not have a plan.
No one should feel obligated to join this crafting project in any way. This is a design decision I have made for myself. If it turns out that there are not enough personnel to complete a cross stitch, I will make a crocheted cozy with anyone who is willing to join me.
Simon Eroro, an Australian journalist, really wanted to talk a group of rebels in Papua New Guinea. He crossed many miles of wild, dangerous territory to find them, only to be told that he must be circumcised to meet with them. And they do circumcision the old fashioned way.
No, not a scalpel. Not even a knife. Slivers of bamboo.
In recognition of the extreme efforts that he went to to get the story, Eroro won a local journalism award:
In his subsequent reporting for the Post-Courier newspaper, Mr Eroro exposed the cross-border movements of Free West Papua militants from Indonesia into Papua New Guinea. The judges of News Ltd's Scoop of the Year prize said the reports had led to a major police operation to tighten the borders.
"The impact of Simon's scoop was enormous; the police commissioner launched a major operation to tighten the borders and close down the [Free West Papua] refugee camps," the judges said.
I suspect that Alex's grad school life (remember, the owner of this site is a fully credentialed mad scientist) was like this. Except for the female groupies.
This video was produced as a promotional spot for the firm Invitrogen.
A woman in Gainesville, Florida was arrested for participating in the burglary of a bagel shop. She and another person are accused of breaking in and stealing a cash register. Only twenty-five cents was inside:
In Phillips’ version of events, Harrington broke the front door window to get inside the business and then hauled the silver cash register to the car.
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20111018/articles/111019524 -via Dave Barry | Photo: Flickr user Deborah Fitchett
